What is it about my post that causes you dismay? Your posr did not cause me dismay because I do not take literally the creation story in Genesis.
If I did, I would be dismayed because your point about death being necessary to evolution does appear to conflict with what you say is the biblical implication that death is the result of man's sin. So I can see how that would be a conundrum.
However, I note that Genesis 3 22 (King James Version) has the following passage: "And the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become as one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat and live for ever"
This verse pretty well indicates that Man was never intended to be immortal, and therefore, that death is not the result of original sin.
So upon further reflection I'm not sure that your point is all that valid from a strictly Biblical perspective. (But what do I know? I'm not a Christian or practicing Jew. I'm just a Cemetarian, and certainly no Biblical scholar.)
I am basing my argument on Romans 5:12-21. This passage is crystal clear in its teaching that by one man sin entered the world and then death by sin. Therefore, since death could not have existed before Adam sinned, neither could macro-evolution have existed. Theistic Evolutionism, for the Christian, consequently becomes an untenable ‘belief system’. God said that He made the heavens and the earth and all that is in them - in six days. Christians should believe Him.
I don’t see where Genesis 3:22 implies what you claim that it does. In fact, it presents no conflict with my argument. At the time God makes this statement, Adam and his wife had already sinned and were under the sentence of death. God could not allow them to continue forever in their sinful condition and apparently the “tree of life” would have provided that. The answer was to simply prevent Adam from ever getting to the tree so God drove him from the garden and set up a guard at the entrance.